WELLINGTON, Thursday: FCB New Zealand has announced the promotion of Sean Keaney to managing director – Wellington.
BCF Dentsu takes a joyride in the SUV from before SUVs were cool (Updated)
AUCKLAND, Today: BCF Dentsu has created a new Subaru campaign that aims to reassert the meaning behind the SUV that started it all. The SUV from before SUVs were cool.
Hello targets offshore giants with new Prime Energy campaign
AUCKLAND, Wednesday: Downtown Auckland creative shop Hello has launched a new outdoor campaign for Prime Energy, which sees the Kiwi electricity retailer tackle the big energy corporations, head on.
Google rewards former Tearaway ed
NEW YORK, Today: NZ journalism crowdfunding platform PressPatron – NZ’s hottest media industry tech start-up, according to Marketing Magazine in 2018 – has won a small share in a US$3.2 million APAC prize set up by Google to support new business initiatives.
Artists take to the streets of Christchurch
CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday: “Friday 15th March hit hard,” writes Phantom managing partner Jamey Holloway about the tragedy that has beset us all. “Christchurch is our tūrangawaewae and home for many of us. What can we say or do that could be half adequate in the face of this?”
Aussie journos face jail time over Pell trial reports
SYDNEY, Today: Dozens of Australian journalists, editors and media organisations could face jail time over allegedly breaking a court-ordered suppression of George Pell’s trial for child sex abuse.
Best in Showbiz
AUCKLAND, Last night: (Story by M+AD writer Scott Pryor.) As you might expect – the NZ Events Association certainly know how to host an event. Their Awards Gala held last night at Auckland’s Shed 10 was slick with every detail carefully considered and managed.
Sonic branding? The Mark Tungate interview
LONDON, Tuesday: Epica Awards director Mark Tungate – a Paris-based British journalist, and regular contributor to M+AD – sounds out Max De Lucia about the new sonic branding agency he co-founded with Greg Moore, Sascha Darroch-Davies and Jeremy Paterson.
Media AoY entries close next week
AUCKLAND, Today: Entries for the 2019 NZ Media Agency of the Year Awards close in just one week – next Thursday 4 April.
Jacinda rates on Aussie TV
SYDNEY, Tuesday: An interview with NZ PM Jacinda Ardern and internet sensation Egg Boy (Will Connolly) secured Australia’s 10 Network current affairs The Project a 25% boost week-on-week when it aired on Monday.
